Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic — Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …

Predictions 2008 — Has it been a whole year? I posted my predictions for 2007 on Jan 1, 2007, and here it is, the first day of 2008, and here we go again. This year I am going to organize my predictions by companies (just the big ones) and trends. I'm focusing on advertising …

Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages — Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they're published. The problem is that you can't rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks …

Rails Is A Ghetto — I've more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though I'd take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay. As soon as I was stable and didn't need Ruby …

The State of Innovation in India — 10 years ago, in 1997, I wrote an article called Playing Against 5 Aces for a technology magazine in India called Dataquest. The article looked at how the deck was stacked in favor of American technology companies, because they were playing with 5 Aces in the pack:

Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It — Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for “Windows Seven,” currently expected in 2010. There's a feeling of inevitability about the transition …

It's a security issue, folks — In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk …

Are your SEO efforts working, or failing? — (For a quick summary of Search engine optimization, check out the Wikipedia entry) — SEO is a black art - with an emphasis on Art not Science — If you've ever wanted to increase website traffic, you've likely stumbled on a dozen or more guides on SEO.

Google New Year's Logo With Easter Egg — Today's Google logo reads “2008” to celebrate new year's, but also honors 25 years of TCP/IP. Clicking on it leads to a search result for the query January 1 tcp/ip. This protocol underlying the internet was fully switched to on January 1st, 1983, as Wikipedia's entry on the subject knows.